With great pleasure we announce that the 44th Vernadsky/Brown Microsymposium on Comparative Planetology will be held in Moscow, Russia at the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry on October 9-11, 2006.

The Microsymposium is being organized as a joint effort by the Vernadsky Institute, Moscow, Russia and Brown University, Providence RI under sponsorship of Russian Foundation of Basic Sciences.